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Marlon Vera has a message for Sean O’Malley’s corner after the pair collided in the UFC 252 co-main event on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Vera entered his fight with O’Malley as a significant betting underdog, but ultimately sprung the upset, scoring an impressive TKO win in the bout’s first round.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the UFC 252 post-fight press conference, Vera revealed that O’Malley’s cornermen were somewhat hostile to him in the moments immediately surrounding the fight, talking some trash<\/a> ahead of time, and protesting referee Herb Dean’s stoppage after the fact.<\/p>\n

After his win over O’Malley, he sent a message to his vanquished foe’s team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guy was snoring,\u201d Vera said (via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cWhen I landed the second elbow, he was making noises, he was out. And then when Herb Dean got in the middle, you could see [O\u2019Malley\u2019s] head bounce back. I see his corner saying, \u2018No, that was too early.\u2019 We make eye contact and I was like, \u2018You know that sh*t wasn\u2019t early,\u2019 and the guy was pretty quiet all of a sudden.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat guy was talking sh*t while we were getting ready to walk to the cage. He was yelling, \u2018He\u2019s slow.\u2019 It\u2019s like, dude, it\u2019s a fu**ing fight, if you want to try to get in my head, you\u2019ve got to try harder than that. So I was just like, the only way to make you pay is fu**ing your kid up.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his last fight, Marlon Vera lost an extremely controversial decision to Song Yadong. After that bitter loss, he says he had extra motivation to train and perform against Sean O’Malley.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe I\u2019m a solid top-10,\u201d Vera said. \u201cI\u2019ve been making damage in the division. What happened in the last fight got me pretty upset, got me pretty angry, and actually made me do what I did tonight. I wasn\u2019t happy. I was pushing myself a little harder. I was being hard on me. I don\u2019t give myself vacation, I don\u2019t give myself cheat days. I was like, it\u2019s time to dig deep and that\u2019s when I find myself even better. I came to this fight with a mission. I cannot let this happen again in my life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was terrible. They take half of my check, they cut a pretty sweet winning streak, which\u2014I\u2019m at seven right now, I don\u2019t care what they say, I\u2019m on [a seven-fight] winning streak.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think is next for Marlon Vera after his UFC 252 win over Sean O’Malley?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marlon Vera has a message for Sean O’Malley’s corner after the pair collided in the UFC 252 co-main event on Saturday night. Vera entered his fight with O’Malley as a significant betting underdog, but ultimately sprung the upset, scoring an impressive TKO win in the bout’s first round. 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